For the connection, I am going with a theme of nervousness and that you feel it at both high and low points. With my past, which was me graduating high school, connecting to my present, me failing in the first semester, I will talk about going from one of the highest points in my life to one of my lowest. When I watched my friends walk across the stage and receive their diplomas while waiting for my turn, I don't think I could have felt that much excitement and nervousness at one time. Regretfully though, the amount of nervousness was felt again in the end of my semester in college when I found out that I had failed one class and scored very low in another. To connect the midpoint and future, which is of me paying off my house, I can use the nervous I felt when I failed to how I feel when I send the last check to finish paying off my home. But nervousness doesn't always occur when bad things are going on, it can also happen when one is about to take part in one of the most important parts of their life, paying off a home. When I sent in that last check to finish paying for my house, I had butterflies not only in my stomach, but all the way up my chest, into my writing arm, and down to my finger as I signed the last check.